274 research outputs found
FRAGILE COUNTRIES AND THE 2008-2009 CRISIS.
No full textThis paper analyses the channels through which the economic and financial crisis of 2008-2009 is transmitted to fragile countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Trade stands out as the main direct channel, even though intra-Africa remittances play a relevant role, given that most migrants in Sub-Saharan Africa fragile countries cannot afford the cost of mi-grating to Europe or to the United States and stay close, remaining in the continent. Whether reduced aid flows also act as a crisis transmission channel remains an open question, even though preliminary estimates suggest that, at least in the medium run, OECD countries are likely to lower aid, with potentially very damaging effects on fragile countries. The paper also shows that fragile countries are characterised by very low re-silience and capacity to cope with shocks. It concludes, by highlighting how Sub-Saharan Africa fragile countries' policymakers' room for manoeuver is limited in periods of crisis because of low fiscal space and limited institutional capacity. It advocates that the right response to the crisis would be to mobilise domestic resources, although this will require functional institutions able to offset the potential trade-offs between adverse short-term shocks and a long-term perspective.financial crisis, Sub Saharan Africa, real transmission channels. JEL Classification F0 O1.
Fabbisogni e costi standard, un'occasione perduta
No full textThe paper relates to the introduction of the standard requirement and cost concepts in health care financing system. The author, after a reconstruction of the evolution of health service financing in Italy, highlights the criticality of the system. Finally, the author examines the possibility that the standard requirement and cost concepts obtain a different meaning from the original
Rediscovering the Ancient Display of the Museo Egizio’s “Statuario"
No full textThe article presents the rediscovery and analysis of important documents concerning the early history of the Museo Egizio in Turin, which are currently held in the State Archive in Turin. The study of these papers shed light on a crucial phase in the history of the museum, allowing the author to retrace features of the display of the statue gallery of the Museo Egizio in the 1850s
I nomi parlanti nel romanzo Il demone meschino di Fëdor Sologub
No full textThis study aims to demonstrate how the use of speaking names in F. Sologub’s
novel The Petty Demon (1907) enhances the text by establishing meaningful semantic connections. Through the strategic application of onomastics, the author introduces new layers of meaning that enrich the overall significance of the work. Several
notable examples will be presented to illustrate this point, including a speaking
name in the literal sense (Varvara), a name with predictive qualities (Volodin), and
a name linked to Russian folklore (the demon Nedotykomka)
European Sharing and Collaborative Cities: The Italian Way
No full textThe article analyses the issue of Sharing and Collaborative Cities from a primarily methodological perspective. Starting from statistical data that confirm the constant growth of the urban population, and taking into account the major issues that affect urban policies (environment, inequalities, poverty), the author focuses on the different methodological approaches in the study of collaborative cities. Subsequently, an Italian case study is presented, which involves shared administration and the main implementation tools involved (Regulation of the management and regeneration of urban commons, including collaboration agreements)
Soldati, sanzioni, i prati di Apamea e Cuiacio nel Commentarius di Gotofredo a C. Th. 7.7.3
No full textThis article, following Godefroy’s Commentarius on C. Th. 7.7.3, focuses on two different aspects of the constitution, issued by Arcadius in 398 for the purpose of prohibiting soldiers from feeding their animals in the public meadows of Apamea and in the private ones in Antioch, under penalty of a fine of twelve pounds of gold. In Code of Justinian 11.61.2, this constitution presents a slightly different text tradition. Firstly, the author analyses which type of responsibility (personal or collective) is imposed on soldiers. A quote by Godefroy from Cujas, who reports a misterious passage of the Basilica, is then put into examination
Le biblioteche di Carlo Emilio Gadda
No full textLa tesi si occupa della biblioteca di Carlo Emilio Gadda, fornendo: il catalogo completo dei libri posseduti dall'autore, e ora conservati in diversi fondi e le schede di analisi delle postille ai libri posseduti da Gadda e ora consultabili presso la Biblioteca Teatrale del Burcardo di Roma.This work focuses on Carlo Emilio Gadda's personal library and provides: the complete catalogue of all the books Gadda had, the tomes are now kept in several archives and the analysis of the notes left by the author on his books now kept by the Biblioteca Teatrale del Burcardoof Rome
Storie di navi, di case, di cose… L’opera di Roberto Innocenti e la capacità di vedere/narrare oltre l’umano
No full textThis article analyses the work of the author and illustrator Roberto Innocenti in an ecocritical and ecomaterialist perspective. All the books for children created by Innocenti over a forty-year long career (1980s–2020s) are characterized by a passionate attention for things, objects, settings, materials, brought to the forefront and depicted in an iperrealistic way, while human beings are represented as small and distant entities, i.e.: as part of the varied tissue of forms, presences and stories of which the world is made. This propensity to attribute importance and meaning to the non-human world, and especially to ‘things’, is crucial, according to the thinkers of Ecocriticism and New Materialism. After centuries of anthropocentrism, an epistemic shift is necessary to create a new balance between man and environment, mind and matter, subject and object, and this shift can be found in Innocenti’s books, whose narrative/visual strategies succeed in representing reality as a multilayered dimension full of vibrant matter, inextricably human and non-human.L’articolo analizza in ottica ecocritica ed eco-materialista l’opera dell’autore e illustratore Roberto Innocenti. Tutti i libri per l’infanzia che Innocenti ha realizzato (dagli anni Ottanta a oggi) si impongono per un’attenzione appassionata alle ‘cose’, agli oggetti, agli ambienti, agli sfondi, portati in primo piano e iper-realisticamente resi assai più di quanto non accada ai personaggi umani, immancabilmente raffigurati come piccoli e lontani, come parte del variegato tessuto di forme, presenze e storie di cui si compone il mondo. Questa propensione a riconoscere importanza e significatività al non-umano, a fare diventare quello il focus della rappresentazione/narrazione è cruciale per i teorici dell’Ecocriticism, e ancor più del New Materialism, per i quali, dopo secoli di antropocentrismo, è necessario un nuovo paradigma epistemologico capace di ripristinare un equilibrio, in Occidente infranto, fra uomo e ambiente, mente e materia, soggetto e oggetto. Nei libri di Innocenti la realtà è mostrata come dovrebbe sempre essere intesa, per gli studiosi del Post-umano: come una dimensione multiforme, relazionale, composta di vibrante materia, sia essa umana o non-umana
Una versione inedita della «Legenda sanctae Clara e virginis» (BHL 1815) nel leggendario di Pietro Calò
No full textThe article provides for the first time the critical edition of the life of St. Clare contained in the Legendae de sanctis by Pietro Calò. The primary source of the text is undoubtedly the Legenda sanctae Clarae virginis (BHL 1815), commissioned by Alexander IV and attributed to Thomas of Celano, but in a much abbreviated form. Given Caló's faithfulness to his models, the research attempts to identify an already epitomised version of the Legenda, that may have been used by the Dominican. The types of texts analysed are as follows: epitomes of the Legenda; minor Latin legends; earlier and contemporary hagiographic works; hagiographic materials of Venetian provenance. The conclusion is that none of the sources coincide with Caló's life, leaving open the possibility that the author himself prepared the abbreviation, in accordance with what seems to occur in other parts of the Legendariu
Counter Piracy Armed Services, the Italian System and the Search for Clarity on the Use of Force at Sea
No full textThere seems to be a broad consensus that maritime piracy is causing serious harm to life and property and to the safety of navigation. Nevertheless, it appears that the international community and affected States lack a coherent and coordinated approach to counter piracy. This article examines the increasingly emerging use of armed security services on board of civilian vessels. Italy, like other flag States fearing a significant threat to well-defined domestic interests, has begun to authorize the deployment of security personnel on national vessels navigating in international waters infested by pirates. However, according to the author, to avoid the consequent predictable escalation of violence at sea and the possible breach of human rights law applicable to suspected pirates, States are required to adopt proper legislative frameworks that duly regulate the actions of embarked armed services
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